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Texas Is Supposed To Be A Clinton Campaign Firewall
But have they just realized that the firewall may be soggy?
11 Responses to “Texas Is Supposed To Be A Clinton Campaign Firewall”
It's getting harder and harder to beat the argument that Clinton simply didn't think she'd still be fighting a primary campaign after super tuesday.
In Austin, when I wear my OBama T-shirt at the YMCA people ask me where they can get one.
When I put up my Obama Yard sign people knocked on my door asking where they can get one.
My neighbors are inspired.
I worked in several news organizations where we thought everything was anticipated…and it wasn't. And if you look at your own lives, there are times when we think we have all bases covered..and something comes out of left base to hit us in the puss. This could be a case like this. Also, remember that the conventional wisdom has been wrong all year so if the new conventional wisdom is that this will help Obama, it then seems almost certain that it won't!
Now Paul, everyone knows that Austin is really just Moscow on the Colorado!
It's a bit ironic how all this has washed out. The Clinton campaign claims now that delegates from red states don't really count, but where is Clinton strongest? Rural areas mostly it seems.
So are Clinton delegates second class?
I live in the Austin area, and I think O has the mo, plus Indies and R's are gonna KO Hillary. Obama will win by 2-3% points.
Austin — the Texas liberal oasis…liberals and trees, trees and liberals (hi-tech, too)
“Austin is really just Moscow”
It's not Waco, that's for certain. (Beatles-burning Jerusalem-on-the-Brazos)
Time for Hill to reprise that great old motto from the marvelous Austin hippie-music scene in 1970s:
“Onward through the fog.”
Don't forget, now they claim that the people from Florida and Michigan (scenes of illegitimate elections that never featured real campaigns and complete slates of candidates) “should be heard.”
As long as Obama can keep Texas and Ohio close, he shouldn't really need victories in them, as the other states he's been winning should keep him ahead. Of course, a Texas victory should be a knock-out punch, assuming the superdelegates don't choose to overrule their own party's voters..
Actually, only a few districts in Austin are liberal. Most of the surrounding areas, where I live, are typically Republican.
But, once a stereotyper, always.